Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The idea that UFOs are the products of an über-reality, not
unlike that imagined in the Martrix franchise, cannot be dismissed out-of-hand,
as far as some of us are concerned.

The idea of a separate, unique real reality, promulgated by
Plato in his Cave analogy and others (philosophers, science fiction writers,
physicists, film-makers, et cetera), becomes a viable thesis by virtue of its
being thought by us, by humans.

You can pursue the concept yourselves by Googling
transcendentalism and philosophical adjuncts, but most of you understand the
idea and the Matrix films provide an easy introduction.

That we are being manipulated by a master game-player, that
some of us think is God, is not hard to swallow, and allows for UFOs to be part
of that game….the Game of God we’ve called it.

But if that is a bit too weird for the pragmatists among
you, let me broach the UFO problem with this.

UFOs have been around, provably, since the dawn of thinking
man.

The Aubeck/Vallee book, Wonders in the Sky, provides a
litany of credible accounts that show the ubiquity of UFOs throughout history.

But the question to ask is why haven’t UFOs evolved in that
long time period? (We’ve addressed this issue in an earlier post here.)

Pure UFOs remain pretty much as they have been witnessed
over the millennia, despite the attempts to show them changing with the times,
as the air-ship aficionados insist, writing that the air-ship (dirigible-like
UFOs) were forerunners to the more stylized craft of the late 40s and 50s,
right up to the present day.

But early UFO sightings and depictions of them are not
different than today’s sightings and depictions, which means, as we see it,
that UFOs are a static phenomenon, or many within the UFO genera are static.

That is, UFOs are an archetypal phenomenon – some of them
anyway, maybe most of them.

The odd-UFOs are elements one can ascribe to mental
aberrations (hysteria/hallucinations) or totally separate phenomena with
attributes that mimic (not purposefully!) UFOs.

Jose Caravaca’s “Distortion Theory – delineated at his blog
with us (http://caravaca-files.blogspot.com)
-- could be put in to the Maxtrix “explanation” as his external agent as the
causa essentia is not different than the machine/God of the Maxtrix hypothesis.

Then we have the multiple universe concept where UFOs are
insertions from another parallel universe or adjacent, unseen world that
sometime intersects with our universe, our reality.

What doesn’t make this idea valid for me is the appearance
of machines or craft as part of such hypothetical intrusions.

Why would machines need to traverse the division between us
and the others? Why not just step through or come into this reality as one
might go from a car or plane into another geographical venue? The craft seems
superfluous.

But does the machinery (the UFO artifact) act as a
protective device, more than a transporting device?

For some, the Earth is a Garden of Eden, a wondrous,
one-of-a-kind planet which attracts aliens from other worlds because of its
beauty, its flora and fauna, its minerals, or its water.

But there are so many other more ravishing places in the
known universe that to think Earth is a primary stop for interstellar travelers
is the quintessential ego-oriented view projected outward to life-forms who
surely have seen better.

The continuing problem when it comes to UFOs is that the
sightings have been lumped into a generic category: UFOs. Whereas the things
represent phenomena, as we keep writing.

There is not one UFO species, but many, some real some not.

Since ufologists are generalists, no science has developed
to cope with the many forms or species that make up the whole UFO panoply.

And does it matter, really?

UFOs are like insects or butterflies – many kinds with many different
attributes but ultimately not important to humanity or one’s personal existence